La Sentinelle travel guide
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Visit La Sentinelle: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: La Sentinelle is situated in the Nord department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north-east of France at 44 km from Lille, the department capital. (General information: La Sentinelle is 185 km from Paris and 133 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Cambrai at 28 km from La Sentinelle
Popular places to visit near La Sentinelle: these include Cambrai at 28 km and Roubaix at 44 km.
Scarpe-Escaut is a listed 'regional natural parc' at 10km and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux is a listed 'recommended detour' at 12km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near La Sentinelle, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Sentinelle
See France This Way travel guides for and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Sentinelle.
Note that all distances from La Sentinelle shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Sentinelle holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to La Sentinelle (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Nord gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting La Sentinelle and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Sylvie Fontaine (31km) : Le parc Barbieux (43km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) (34km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame de La Treille (Lille) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Mastaing (14km) : Wattignies (41km) : Roubaix (44km) : Wasquehal (44km) : Tourcoing (48km) : Guyencourt-Saulcourt (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Cambrai (28km) : Lille (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (12km) :
Map of places to visit near La Sentinelle & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sentinelle
Canton: Valenciennes-Sud
Arrondissement: Valenciennes
Department: Nord
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 59174
Distance to La Sentinelle
from Lille: 44 km
from Paris: 185 km
from Calais: 133 km
from Nice: 792 km
from Bordeaux: 684 km
from Strasbourg: 365 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 23 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Sentinelle): Anzin, Aubry-du-Hainaut, Aulnoy-Lez-Valenciennes, Bellaing, Beuvrages, Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, Famars, Haulchin, Haveluy, Herin, Maing, Marly, Oisy, Petite-Foret, Prouvy, Raismes, Rouvignies, Saint-Saulve, Thiant, Trith-Saint-Leger, Valenciennes, Wallers and Wavrechain-sous-Denain.
Getting here
For driving distances to La Sentinelle from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Sentinelle